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Crown Heights

Jul
09
Car Crashes in PLG After Driver and Passenger Get Shot in Crown Heights

Car Crashes in PLG After Driver and Passenger Get Shot in Crown Heights

Site of the crash in Prospect Lefferts Gardens hours after it occurred (Picture by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS/
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Jul
09
Crime Continues to Decline As Shootings Increase in Brooklyn

Crime Continues to Decline As Shootings Increase in Brooklyn

Terence Monahan, Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and James P. O’Neill at a monthly crime briefing in Sugar
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Jul
09
Community Board 9 Schedules Election for Chair, As Baker’s Tenure Ends

Community Board 9 Schedules Election for Chair, As Baker’s Tenure Ends

Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Caroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—Community Board
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Jul
09
‘Jayden is Brooklyn’s Champion’: Graduation Held at Hospital For Recently Shot 11-Year-Old

‘Jayden is Brooklyn’s Champion’: Graduation Held at Hospital For Recently Shot 11-Year-Old

Jayden Grant with his grandmother, Bessie Watson Grant, before the graduation ceremony began (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BOROUGH PARK—
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Jul
08
NYPD Announces Details on Crown Heights Cops Increase

NYPD Announces Details on Crown Heights Cops Increase

CROWN HEIGHTS—The NYPD has sent dozens of additional police officers to a pocket of  Brooklyn that in recent months
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Jul
08
New Building on its Way in Crown Heights Near Brooklyn Botanic Garden

New Building on its Way in Crown Heights Near Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Picture of the empty lot where 54 Crown Street is planned (Image via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS — Another new building
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Jul
05
Shooting Victim Loses Control of Car in Crown Heights Friday Morning

Shooting Victim Loses Control of Car in Crown Heights Friday Morning

CROWN HEIGHTS – A man lost control of his car in Crown Heights after being shot early Friday morning, the NYPD
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Jul
02
Man Shot At Crown Heights Park Tuesday Morning

Man Shot At Crown Heights Park Tuesday Morning

CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was shot in the Lincoln Terrace/Arthur S. Somers Park Tuesday morning, according to police. Lincoln
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Jul
01
‘I Should Not Have to Dodge Cars to Get Home from Work’: Warm Reception to Flatbush Ave. Bike Lanes at CB9 Meeting

‘I Should Not Have to Dodge Cars to Get Home from Work’: Warm Reception to Flatbush Ave. Bike Lanes at CB9 Meeting

The Department of Transportation’s Acacia Dupierre explains the bike lane proposal at a Community Board 9 meeting, as the
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Jun
28
Yoni Katz Can Take You on a ‘Messianic’ Tour of Hasidic Crown Heights  

Yoni Katz Can Take You on a ‘Messianic’ Tour of Hasidic Crown Heights  

Yoni Katz in a library on Kingston Avenue, where he begins his tours (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—
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